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Sexy. As. Fuck.
“Girls, Dan, go get cleaned up. Levi and I will finish up here,” my mom orders as she brings the bubbling pan to the table.
I watch the sway of Saffron’s ass as she leaves the room. This girl has the most amazing ass.
“Levi.” My mom’s tone is harsh.
“Yeah, Ma?” I turn my grin on her, letting my dimples go to work.
“Don’t ‘yeah Ma’ me. Your dad already told me you acted a fool with Saffron earlier today.” She points a finger at me. “Best behavior at my dinner table, Levi. Not kidding.”
The warning leaves no room for argument or wiggle room for me to charm her out of it. Let’s just hope my hoodie stays in place and she doesn’t see my neck, or she’ll really kick my ass.
Mimicking Saffie, I say sweetly, “Yes, ma’am.” She swats my arm, trying to hold back a smile. Clearly, she can’t stay mad at me for long.
The girls and my dad file back into the room and take their seats at the table. My sisters, being the smart little shits that they are, make sure Saffie sits between them so I can’t sit next to her. Millie flashes me an impish grin along with the bird, hurriedly busying her hands when my mom turns back to the table.
“This all looks amazing, Miss Madeline,” Raegan praises. “I love game night.”
“It does, ma. Thank you,” I agree, kissing her cheek before taking my seat next to Raegan and right across from her cousin. Her cousin won’t meet my eyes even though I know she feels mine on her. The harder she works to ignore me, the harder I’m going to make it for her to do so.
Plates are passed and filled. The twins and Rae never stop with their chatter about this chick saying this, and this one cheating on that one, and the next party and on and on and on. I don’t even pretend to try to keep up or pay too much attention until my mom speaks up.
“Maeve, is Benny not coming? You did invite him, didn’t you?”
I mask my snort of disgust with an appreciative hum around a mouthful of chicken. Maeve isn’t fooled, though, and glares.
“I did, Ma. He said thank you, but he didn’t think you would appreciate breaking up a fight in the middle of your dining room.”
“A fight? Who is going to fight?” my mother asks, glancing around the table. Shit. No doubt my sisters are about to rat my ass out, and my ma is gonna be pissed.
“Why don’t you ask your precious, Levi?” Millie taunts. I knew it would be her. Even as mad as Maeve was with me, she still wouldn’t snitch.
“Levi Daniel Sexton, you didn’t!” My mother just busted out my full government name, and she only does that when she means business. There’s no getting out of this one.
As nonchalantly as I can, I take a sip of my water to give myself a moment to collect my thoughts since it’s obvious my dad, the only other man in the damn room, isn’t coming to my rescue. The traitor. “I did. He had it coming, Ma. There’s a code among friends and roommates and especially teammates, and he broke it.” I shrug. “Blame him, not me.” A muttered expletive comes from the other side of the table. Glancing at the twins, I see Maeve’s flushed face, Millie’s gleeful expression, and the look of utter disgust on Saffron’s face, and I know immediately where it came from.
“A code, Levi? That’s ridiculous.” Mom huffs.
“Totally ridiculous,” Millie quips. The brat.
“I think it’s kind of sweet,” Raegan says, patting my back. “A little caveman-y but still sweet.”
Finally, someone’s on my side. I smile at Rae in thanks. “You’re my favorite.”
“I know.” She nods and goes back to her food. I’m just about to do the same, hoping to put an end to this whole thing, when Millie opens her snitching-ass mouth again.
“Poor Benny. I’ll be surprised if he’s even able to see out of his eye at the game tonight.” Her tone is syrupy sweet and total bullshit. She’s punishing me for sending Benny as a chaperone on their little trip in the first place. As if him dating Maeve isn’t punishment enough.
“Oh, Levi! He’s your friend.”
“Still is. He’s just my friend with a black eye who is now dating my sister and therefore subject to more ass beatings if I think he needs them.” I point my fork at my ma. “This is all your fault anyway. You raised me to look after them and be the best big brother in the whole world. Well, this is me being big bro.” Knowing that will give her something to think about, I go back to chewing, narrowing my eyes at my Judas of a father for not coming to my defense. He knows it too because he shrugs and gives me a “sorry not sorry” face.
Thankfully, that’s that, and Mom moves on. “So Saffron, the girls tell me that you came from Connecticut.”
“Yes, ma’am,” she says softly. “My dad died, and my mom is moving here to be closer to my aunt, Raegan’s mother, and to my grammy.
“You didn’t want to stay at your school?” my mom questions, curious.
